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Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight review – heartfelt child’s-eye view of last days of Rhodesia

Embeth Davidtz stars and directs, with outstanding performances from Zikhona Bali and seven-year-old Lexi Venter as Bobo as white minority rule ends

The Guardian - UK

‘I am quite tough’: Schindler’s List star Embeth Davidtz on her explosive film about Rhodesia’s final days

After starring in Mad Men, Californication, Spider-Man and Junebug, Davidtz soured on acting. Now she’s directed – and starred in – a powerful debut film

The Guardian - UK

Rhodesian Ridgeback: Also known as the African Lion Dog, this breed is loyal and protective but will they make for a good family pet?

Learn more about this intelligent, friendly yet incredibly active dog and whether you should invite one into your home

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The largely unsung role of US former president Carter in southern Africa

Former US president Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday aged 100, was well known for his diplomatic skills and commitment to respecting human rights – much less so for his African legacy. And yet he was the first US president to visit sub-Saharan Africa and during his short term in…

Radio France Internationale

Kissinger at 100: How his ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid

Historians say the involvement in Africa of the former US secretary of state, who is 100 this week, drew the US into Angola’s war and aided apartheid after the Soweto uprising

The Guardian - UK

Ruth Weiss, journalist who fought apartheid, finally honoured in South Africa

A prophet has no honour in their homeland, goes the biblical adage. But of the many places that journalist, author and activist Ruth Weiss has lived – Germany (where she was born), South Africa, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Britain, Zambia and Denmark – which is her home? On 28 April,…

The Conversation

Jimmy Carter's African legacy: peacemaker, negotiator and defender of rights

When historians and pundits praise Jimmy Carter’s achievements as the US president and extol his exemplary post-presidential years, they mention the recognition of China, the Panama Canal Treaties and the Camp David Accords. Almost no one mentions what Carter achieved in Africa during his presidency. This is a serious oversight.

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Henry Kissinger at 100: history will judge the former US secretary of state's southern African interventions to be a failure

Henry Kissinger, who sexed up the art of diplomacy in the eight years between 1969 and 1977, will turn 100 in May this year.

The Conversation

Artist Nora Chipaumire: 'We have the right to pursue our dreams'

With her powerful performances she questions gender, race and the aftermath of colonial oppression. Nora Chipaumire has forged an artistic path from Zimbabwe to New York through choreography and dance, picking up multiple awards along the way. As her piece "Nehanda: Manifesting Thinking" comes to the stage in Paris, Nora…

France 24

Pioneering art collection returns to Zimbabwe after 70 years

A compelling art exhibit, “The Stars Are Bright,” has opened at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe of paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s by young Black students at Cyrene Mission School, the first to teach art to Black students in what was then white minority-ruled Rhodesia

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